Re: Sortable List, Serializing and Parsing with Ruby

OmenKing
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:55:00 -0000

Im not the one implementing it in asp, or yet that I know of.
I''d be railing if it were up to me.

But for my testing purposes I''d like to know how its possible just
passing a request similar to what Pragmatic did in there book.


On Jan 30, 2:45 pm, "Justin Perkins"
<justinperk...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2008 1:38 PM, OmenKing
<omen.k...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> > That would be the simpler solution but it may not be practical for my
> > me.
> > I''ll moving this code over to an asp classic system.
> > I was just using it in ruby for simple testing and showing purposes.
>
> Since this list is to discuss the Rails-spinoffs, mainly prototype and
> scriptaculous, whatever you do on the backend is something to discuss
> somewhere else. I try to help people if they''re using the built-in
> Rails helpers to generate their JavaScript for them, but generally
> server-side talk is best taken to other lists that specialize in the
> technology you are using. Especially if we''re talking about old
school
> ASP ;)
>
> > When should I use JSON over send requests with Ajax?
>
> I''m not sure I understand your question. Are you asking when is it
> appropriate to use JSON to send data over Ajax? If so, the answer is
> really up to you. Some people use JSON exclusively for Ajax
> communication, and other people may use it rarely, if ever. It''s
up to
> what works best for your environment/style.
>
> Since you mentioned switching to ASP, then maybe most of the questions
> you have in this thread are irrelevant since ASP will unescape
> parameters for you *and* have the methods in place to extract the
> values you are looking for in the Request object, like:
> Request("tasks[0]").
>
> -justin